Michael Arrington shared some incredible insight at TechCrunch about what it will take for desktop touchscreen computing to be a hit. So what does the future of desktop touch computing look like? Most ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

The frenzy around Apple's iPhone has renewed interest in using touch screens as a friendlier way for interacting with computers. Once an interface relegated to niches, touch is hot again. The ...

Hewlett Packard refreshed their TouchSmart line of computers today. If you’re not familiar with these, imagine an iMac all in one computer that has a touch screen, and you’re most of the way there. I ...

What is it The latest version of HP‘s all-in-one TouchSmart line combines a desktop computer, touch-screen LCD monitor and a television into one large device (no more separate desktop tower, etc.).

In the early 2000s, my editor and I often engaged in friendly banter over the old controversy of nature versus nurture. We were working at a now-defunct magazine called Line56, whose title plays off ...

But now the hegemony of WIMP may be coming to an end, say developers of technologies based on human touch and gesture. For evidence, look no further than Apple’s one-year-old iPhone. From a ...

Clever German students produce a multiuser touch screen the size of a desk, which curves up to create a, well, <i>desktop</i>--like the metaphorical one you may be staring at now. Ed is a many-year ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is floating around extolling the virtues of Windows 8. Reviewers are giving more positive reviews than negative reviews. Smart people I know have actually changed their ...